Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/06/2009 1:14:14 PM PDT by Jacquerie
Dear Mrs. Bbbbbb,
Thank you for contacting me regarding the American Clean Energy and Security Act. I appreciate hearing from you and would like to take this opportunity to respond to your concerns.
On May 15, 2009, Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) introduced the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2454). This bill would create an absolute cap on total emissions from all covered entities including the electric power, transportation, oil and gas industry, and other commercial sectors with the goal of reducing greenhouse gases. This cap would be lowered over time through 2050, and a government-created market would be established to sell and trade emission allowances. On June 26, 2009, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2454 by a vote of 219-212. H.R. 2454 now awaits further consideration in the Senate.
I believe that the threat of climate change is real, and I am working with my colleagues in the Senate to regulate and reduce greenhouse emissions. As we consider climate change legislation, we need to ensure that the laws we pass will in fact reduce carbon emissions and lessen the threat of catastrophic climate change. Additionally, we need to consider and attempt to mitigate any negative effects the new laws would have on our economy, energy prices, and Americans living on fixed incomes.
The United States cannot solve this problem alone, and similar efforts in China and India are critical to combating this threat. However, our country can provide needed leadership and technological innovation for the international community, and, as one of the world's largest energy consumers, it is time for the United States to accept this responsibility. The choices we make now in dealing with climate change may be some of the most significant environmental and economic decisions of our generation. I assure you that I am committed to passing legislation to counter the threat posed by global climate change, and I will be sure to keep your thoughts in mind should H.R. 2454, or any related legislation, receive the attention of the full Senate.
Again, thank you for contacting me. If you have any additional questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact me. In addition, for more information about issues and activities important to Florida, please sign up for my weekly newsletter at http://martinez.senate.gov.
Sincerely,
Mel Martinez United States Senator
My Congress-clown and both Senators will vote for this unconstitutional trash. I am so ashamed for my state.
Good that he is leaving.
ping!
Martinez is a worthless POS, and if Crist wins the Repub nomination, I will be supporting Kendrick Meek.
What a POS.
Hopefully Marco Rubio will win the nomination.
mr police state himself. scary political beast.
Should never be surprised with the Liberal Mel Martinez....and you can bet Cap N Trade will pass as the GOP Senators are more liberal than GOP House members
Yeah, and kids believe the Easter Bunny is real too...what a couple of dipsh--s!
Can't wait for Martinez to leave and hope the next one out the door is NELSON!
Either way you get another Martinez.
Who the hell is paying off these Senators. What exactly is in it for them to completely destroy Florida's economy? Last time I was at Disney they were going ‘green’. I had to ask for clean sheets and towels.
F THAT!
~sorry admin mod, sometimes i can't help myself~
If he doesn’t, Floridians deserve the Democrat.
There’s no use in electing Republicans like Charlie Crist who support the Obama agenda.
I got a lame letter from Mel about 0s Birth Certificate. He said 0 was vetted in the democratic primary and the final vote.
I unfortunately shook his hand in Ormond Beach when McCain was there.
Mel is a RINO, I told him to do his job to uphold the Constitution and he swore to.
Global warming....sheesh.
At 12 noon on the Fourth of July, in Bangor, Maine, it was 60 degrees. Should have been closer to 90.
The year without a summer......
I’m glad Martinez will soon be out of office.
gross.
I've said it before.... There will be an underground economy as this nation becomes more oppressive.
And to think that I voted for the sob. Well, actually I voted against Betty Castor.
Climate change is real. It’s known as the Four Seasons, idiot Senators!!!!!!!!!
Mel Martinez is not the dumbest Senator but he is very, very, very close.
I just told Michael Steele that the RNC can forget about my wallet until this crap ceases. Where do they get the nerve to talk about principles with this going on?
Thanks rabscuttle385,
so you are trying to let me know my senator Mel (the piece of crap RINO) Martinez is even worse than even I believed?
Again, Thanks rabscuttle385.
..."Even Crist's marriage in December wasn't an obstacle to keeping in touch. Erin Issac, his communications director, said, "I talked to the governor 100 times while he was on his honeymoon."
Comments anyone?
No prob. RINOs suck.
Leaving?
He is so bad I can only wish bad on him in any future endeavors.
Mel Martinez is like garbage, dirty.
Boiling Pots,
If Crist wins the pubbie nomination I too will not support him.
Crist is a f-ing RINO p.o.s. and I am NOT voting again for a lesser p.o.s.
Give me a REAL conservative or the pubbie party can go to hell.
baiamonte,
From your name you sound like a latin.
You should post an about page so we can know some about you.
I am sure you have a lot to offer.
And many would like to know a little about you.
I don’t like Martinez and wouldn’t believe him if he told me the sky was blue. Didn’t Martinez QUIT as head of the RNC?
All my letters from RNC for money is returned with my comments that until they develop some gonads to investigate the PINO illegal alien and usurper's threat to our Constitution which they all have sworn to defend and uphold, NO money from my family!!!
The most effective way to get their attention is to hit them in their pocket book???
Martinez quit the RNC and his senate seat is up for grabs. CRIST wants it. So does Marco Rubio who has a facebook page, etc. I’m for Marco Rubio.
Having read this, I just now sent Martinez my opinion of him.
I am for Rubio as well. Remember in the primary how we got trashed but not any more when it comes to Crist.
Amen. There’s no room for Obama agenda supporting Republicans in the Party.
If you want to support the Obama agenda, Mr. GOP politician, by all means do like Arlen Spector and leave the party.
Michael Steele doesn’t give a crap about what you think.
Big Business is all for Cap and Trade, therefore the Republican Party will provide the margin in the Senate for it to pass, MARK MY WORDS. It will pass this December.
Laur,
How do ya like lake county???
Yeah. Seems he couldn’t raise a penny as head of the RNC. We all told him to kiss our backsides, no donations for dem lite.
I stopped donating when Martinez was in charge and I am still not donating. I should write him a thank you letter for showing me how I was wasting my money. :)
That is a given.
Is this a trick question? lol. Do you live here, too?
I will share this with Repub Club members......calls and emails will begin tomorrow! I am SO disgusted with this guy. I emailed him last week cause I read he voted in favor of Harold Koh, someone who may subject America and Americans to international laws. Told Martinez since he seems to believe we should use laws of other countries, why do we need ‘our’ Congress...thus, he should immediately resign!
Does Florida law allow for recall elections of Senators?
Martinez might as well be a RAT.
All the more reason to make his civilian life miserable.
All my RNC ‘trash’ is deep sixed.
this open borders asshat is representable of how a once mighty southern state has been ruined
North Carolina and Virginia soon to follow
if one could take most of north florida and a line down the center spine of the state maybe jumping over to the coast here and there like Crystal River and much of the west coast and Cocoa and Melbourne on the east and just whack off the rest of the east coast below that for the most part and heave Mickeyland and you’d have a great state again
Not nearly soon enough!
About ten miles west of Port St. Lucie.
And no, trick question, but they do get more difficult from here on
I like Lake County just fine. Lots and lots of water, here, and we live on a good-sized lake that could take us to the Atlantic if we were desperate.
You live a distance from here; but you know people who live here?
If the quedstions get harder, I’ll be in quiz mode at all times!
I done that a couple times, also!
It is like hitting a rubber pillow with your fists, you get the same "standard" answer with no substance!!
They never answers your concerns to the core, and I doubt that he ever read our letters!!!
These template answers, I guess is done by his staff in an "effort" to protect the WEASEL???
I use to work for Lefebure a bank company. I had my own area and was number one tech in the state and would have to go around and fix stuff in others area when they couldn’t get it done.
I did the old Lake County Credit Union on S.R. 50 and a few others up there.
Had fun getting up on lakes to do a little fishing. Also had to drive from here to Weeekie Watchie to help my grand folks when they were alive.
Seen the area grow like weeds since Disney invaded.
Always enjoyed it there but lots more before the area grew up.
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